<div dir="ltr">Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.<br><br>This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature<br><br>Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.<br><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.N9Ic.5v_CVJ8VAtlp&smid=em-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.N9Ic.5v_CVJ8VAtlp&smid=em-share</a></div>